{"podcast":{"title":"A Journey into Human History","slug":"a-journey-into-human-history-6372765","podcast_index_feed_id":6372765,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5860966/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history--5860966","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/41ce366b1fc1a5dc0942ad28c9fccaa7.jpg","author":"Creative Common Sense","episode_count":224,"summary":"Welcome to a journey into human history. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. You may be asking yourself what is history? Is it simply a record of things people have done? Is it what writer Maya Angelou suggested—a way to meet the pain of the past and overcome it? Or is it, as Winston Churchill said, a chronicle by the victors, an interpretation by those who write it? History is all this and more. Above all else, it is a path to knowing why we are the way we are—all our greatness, all our faults—and therefore a means for us to understand ourselves and change for the better. But history serves this function only if it is a true reflection of the past. It cannot be a way to mask the darker parts of human nature, nor a way to justify acts of previous generations. It is the historian’s task to paint as clear a picture as sources will allow. Will history ever be a perfect telling of the human tale? No. There are voices we may never hear. Yet each new history book written and each new source uncovered reveal an ever more precise record of events around the world. You are about to take a journey into human history. The content contained in this podcast was produced by…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T16:18:22.926405+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765"},"episode":{"title":"Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire","slug":"turner-mahan-and-the-roots-of-empire","published_at":"2026-09-09T11:05:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765/turner-mahan-and-the-roots-of-empire","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765","url":"https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/22-1-turner-mahan-and-the-roots-of-empire","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74656455/1787594250918_voicemaker_in_speech.mp3","summary":"In the last decades of the nineteenth century, after the Civil War, the United States pivoted from a profoundly isolationist approach to a distinct zeal for American expansion. The nation’s earlier isolationism originated from the deep scars left by the Civil War and its need to recover both economically and mentally from that event. But as the industrial revolution changed the way the country worked and the American West reached its farthest point, American attitudes toward foreign expansion shifted. Businesses sought new markets to export their factory-built goods, oil, and tobacco products, as well as generous trade agreements to secure access to raw materials. Early social reformers saw opportunities to spread Christian gospel and the benefits of American life to those in less developed nations. With the rhetoric of Fredrick J. Turner and the strategies of Alfred Mahan underpinning the desire for expansion abroad, the country moved quickly to ready itself for the creation of an American empire. All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/22-1-turner-mahan-and-the-roots-of-empire Welcome to A Journey into Human History. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Access for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a Creative Common Sense production. 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